VMware Performance Health Check - Overview

You’ve spent a good deal of time and money embracing virtualization but you have still to see the expected performance benefits. If anything performance appears to be degrading over time and you are beginning to worry you are running out of capacity.

Metron’s VMware Performance Health Check uses Metron’s athene® capacity management software to automatically capture key performance and capacity indicators from your VMware environment. Our consultants will remotely analyze the captured data to highlight performance and capacity issues and make recommendation on how they can be improved.

Metron is uniquely qualified to deliver this service that will provide real insight into managing your virtual environment. Metron’s consulting team incorporates over 400 man-years of capacity management experience coupled with VMware VCP qualifications and practical VMware consulting experience working on behalf of VMware.

Benefits
  • Provide assurance to the business that your VMware environment is performing within industry standard thresholds
  • Resolve any performance issues currently experienced
  • Leverage the benefits of enterprise class performance software without the associated cost
  • Reassurance that your virtual infrastructure has sufficient capacity to meet the needs of your business
Deliverables
  • Conduct assessment of a VMware environment using the Metron athene® capacity management software to collect and analyze performance data
  • Identify any performance bottlenecks and determine current capacity of the virtual infrastructure
  • Performance health check report summarizing findings
Key Activities
Action
Responsibility
Kickoff call
All
Architecture review
All
Install configure athene®
Client
Analysis of data
Consultant
Generate report
Consultant
Review report
All
Scope and Pricing
  • $2,425 per VMware cluster *
  • Whilst the data is collected on-site via athene® the resulting analysis and report generation is done off-site. **
  • This service will be delivered by Metron’s uniquely skilled consultancy team
Requirements
  • Existing VMware infrastructure including ESX 3.5+ and Virtual Center 2.5+
  • Read-Only  access to VMware installations
  • Windows based computer running Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 2008 with MS .NET v2 framework installed
  • Sufficient network permissions to access Metron’s FTP site
Target Audience

Anyone who has a vested interest in assuring the effective operation and performance of their VMware infrastructure.


* For a maximum of 5 ESX hosts. Additional hosts can be added at $145 per host.
** On site analysis and report generation is available for an additional cost.

Further information regarding Metron’s software and services is available by contacting sales@metron-athene.com